I use the word nursing for want of a better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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